tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7440683529962162532011-07-07T21:24:26.121-04:00Genealogy: It's not just a hobby; it's an obsession. This is a blog of my adventures in Jewish genealogy, discussing new developments on my trees, new theories and research directions. I talk about the specifics of my own research, rather than general concepts, sort of a genealogy reality show. If you're researching your own family tree, you may find that my experiences give you ideas for your research.Traceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13758599823898341671noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-744068352996216253.post-39025238584713017932010-07-08T09:00:00.002-04:002010-07-08T09:00:02.501-04:00

When you have a hard-to-obtain source at your disposal, make sure you check it for everything that could possibly be there, not just the things that you expect to see there, or the things you are looking for.  I recently got a big reward from being thorough: I had obtained the Budapest Jewish marriage registry from the LDS church to get information about Adolf Magaziner (and it successfully

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If you can't find the person you're looking for in the census records, try every member of the family who might be living with them.  Sometimes, the name you are looking for is indexed incorrectly, but other members of the household may be listed correctly. I just ran into this: I had found one of my families in the 1900 census and in the 1920, but not in the 1910.  I tried several variations

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For me, it's all about the challenge.  I'm a law librarian by trade, daughter of a journalist, and I love the challenge of trying to find an obscure fact and back that fact up with as much corroborating evidence as possible.  It's a bit of a scavenger hunt.  A bit like trying to put together a puzzle without the picture on the box.  And when the pieces fit together, when the next fact in the

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Our lesson for today is, sometimes you need to cast a wide net and get creative to find new things.  Over the last week, I cast a very wide net and stumbled over a Magaziner descendant in a place I never expected.  I'm still sorting out the details, but I've already added several new people to the tree, and a lot of new information.  The short version: I stumbled over the Wechter family,

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I think I've finally figured out how Regina Magaziner links up to my family tree!  I am confident that she is the daughter of Adolf Magaziner.  Now all I have to do is prove it... Regina is one of the many Other Magaziners I've found, people who are named Magaziner in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but who aren't yet connected directly to anyone on the tree.  I first came across Regina years ago

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Fifteen years ago, all I knew about my family history was the names of my eight great-grandparents, all born after 1860. I started working on my family tree in the late 1990s, and I now have the names of 14 out of 16 possible 2nd-great-grandparents, 64 total direct ancestors, including one branch that goes back 10 generations to an 8th-great-grandfather born in the mid-1600s.  I have also worked

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